The Legend of Zelda thread - Ganon's bodyshop will be open for business on Nov. 20th

Sonichuman · June 17, 2011, 2:48am

Wanted to make sure you guys were aware…If you’re picking up OoT and you register it at Club Nintendo then you can get the soundtrack for free.

King9999 · June 17, 2011, 3:48am

Thanks, that was an interesting read, especially some of what Miyamoto said.

King9999 · June 17, 2011, 4:28am

Sonichuman:

There’s an Iwata Asks up on OoT 3D that i’m reading about now.
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/0/0

I knew about the music shifting from regular to battle in the hyrule field areas but I never noticed it had a quiet mode. I’ve heard the music before but it wasn’t too long before I was off doing something. Mahito Yokota was also actually going to rearrange new music for this game but Kondo came in and ‘upended the tea table’ on him. Yokota and his team basically remade all of the music on purpose to sound like the N64 versions but with better quality. He did put in one orchestrated piece though but didn’t say what it was.

Yokota also confirmed he was orchestrating the music for Skyward Sword in this and also mentioned that you’ll be taking double damage in the Master’s Quest. Holy Sweet Jesus…DON’T LET GANON TOUCH YOU.

Someone really goofed on this and mixed up a lot of the links but this was a really good read.

Iwata Asks segments are always interesting. I found this on the main page:
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/1/0

Sonichuman · June 17, 2011, 8:48am

Very interesting stuff.

Someone made a speed run of the E3 dungeon demo

Sonichuman · June 19, 2011, 11:32am

Got my copy of OoT early since I did a midnight for it at my store. Got it registered and everything so I’m getting my soundtrack. Also messing around with the 3D slider again on the intro to see how well the game stands out. Pretty tired so I don’t now how far I’ll get into it tonight but the intro looks fantastic.

Edit:

The fairies that are flying around in kokiri forest are making my eyes blink lol.

kerano1 · June 19, 2011, 4:40pm

I’ve been enjoying playing it through, I can’t see the 3D, my eyes just see separate images, but it’s nice to see the game looking pretty

Sonichuman · June 19, 2011, 7:57pm

I’m assuming you’ve already tried adjusting the slider different degrees. That sucks man :(.

kerano1 · June 21, 2011, 12:39am

Yeah, I can get it at low setting if i wait about a minute for my eyes to adjust but I lose it within just a few seconds, my vision isn’t bad, I don’t need glasses. From what I know it comes from 1 eye being a lot more favoured by the brain than the other.

King9999 · June 21, 2011, 2:01am

Man, it must’ve been a long time…can’t get past the guards in the castle courtyard after entering the castle.

Sonichuman · June 21, 2011, 7:01am

Is anyone else besides me actually liking the gyro controls for aiming?

Sonichuman · June 22, 2011, 10:52pm

Just got into the Fire Temple and noticed the music is Fire Temple V.1.2. I definitely prefer the chanting version from the original but it’s not horrible.

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I’m not Muslim at all so I didn’t even notice any of the Islamic references in the game when I first played it but I don’t understand why exactly they were takin out since they weren’t harming anything.

Biolink · June 22, 2011, 11:00pm

Twilight Princess seemed too short to me for some reason. But it was a good game. No issues at all with Wolf Link whatsoever.

Radiantsilvergun3 · June 22, 2011, 11:22pm

Cuz the zealot Christians know for a fact those Islamic symbols and music are rotting your brain and turning you away from the “true” savior.

just_prime · June 22, 2011, 11:23pm

Whoa. I never knew about that version. Sounds much better and I am sure I would have remembered it more than I do the regular FT theme. I watched the vid on gametrailers. Interesting stuff.

haya haya haya haya haya haya hayaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sonichuman · June 28, 2011, 9:21am

Nintendo just put up an Iwata Asks that mostly was about OoT but some tidbits about Skyward Sword came out
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/4/0

Cliffnotes on skyward sword stuff:

will feature orchestrated music as well as music created with folk instruments
- there’s a secret instrument that plays a big part in Skyward Sword

sound director is Hajime Wakai

core sound staff is from the Software Development Department at the main office

Yokota-san and one other person from Tokyo are involved

Yokota focuses in on the orchestra elements

Kondo’s songs didn’t come into play until the last moment

Kondo pulled an all-nighter to finish up his content
**- Miyamoto believes orchestrated music fits better with Zelda than Mario

Skyward Sword features updated orchestrated versions of some previous Legend of Zelda songs**

Yokota has been pushing for Zelda orchestra live events since he joined the company

He was turned down multiple times, but that all changed with the series’ 25th anniversary

Yokota already had tons of songs he wanted to see played live

If that orchestra shows up near Richmond I will make it a point to make sure I go see it. I hope they release a CD of this stuff too.

Magnetic_Hail · June 29, 2011, 4:38am

cousin just sent me this zelda vid …

blew my mind … zelda awesomeness

Sonichuman · June 29, 2011, 4:46am

amazing

Sonichuman · June 30, 2011, 12:16am

Aonuma recently had a famitsu interview

from The Gaf:

*In case you don’t have an aversion to very minor Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword spoilers, here’s a whole bunch of random tidbits from an E3-era interview with producer Eiji Aonuma that were printed in this week’s Famitsu magazine:

In this game, Zelda starts out as a childhood friend of Link’s – and not royalty. “She’s not a princess this time,” Aonuma said, “which is something I’ll pretty much have to put forth right now in order to talk about this title. She’s a childhood friend, but she goes away in the midst of the game and it’s Link’s job to search for her.”

The starting plot unfolds quite a bit differently from other Zeldas. “This game’s plot is something like a school drama, you could say,” Aonuma noted with a laugh. “The flying sequence at the E3 demo is Link competing against his classmates. One of them looks kind of a like a bad guy, as you saw, and he shows up in other ways in the game too, since he has a major thing for Zelda.”

Despite this, though, the game progresses in a somewhat similar fashion to a previous Zelda title. “The game starts in Skyloft, this city that’s floating in the air, and you’ll come back to this town multiple times,” Aonuma said. “Things are always proceeding along in town, and in that respect it’s very much like Majora’s Mask. Like with Majora, there are a lot of game events involving the townspeople that get intertwined with the main story. Link, Zelda and their other friends all go to the same boarding school, and you’ve got teachers and a principal as well. It’s a bit of a different setting from previous Zeldas.”

Aonuma’s team is making a deliberate effort to give Link new items – like the boomerang-beetle in the E3 demo – early on in Skyward Sword. “With previous Zeldas,” he said, “the common pattern was that the really neat items wouldn’t show up until later on in the game. You need to have the basic item set or it wouldn’t be Zelda, so the new items tended to get shunted to the latter part of the game. [Shigeru] Miyamoto said that had to change, like ‘This is neat, let’s bring it out from the start.’ So a lot of neat new items will show up pretty early on.”

Is Skyloft the entire ‘world’ in this game? “Yes, it’s only the people in Skyloft,” Aonuma responded. “Nobody on there thinks anything of it, though, because living in Skyloft and flying around on birds is normal to them. They don’t have any awareness of there being a mainland beneath the clouds and so forth – that gets expanded upon once Zelda goes missing, and you get access to the areas under the clouds.”

Does everyone in Skyloft have their own personal avian transport? “It’s the custom for each person to have one bird. Link has a red one, and it’s actually a special and very rare breed of bird – which is something that makes him get picked on, like ‘Why do you get this fancy bird and we don’t?!’ But it turns out that you need that red bird in order to access the mainland. So the hand of fate gets involved here, like it always does in Zelda games sooner or later.”

Ghiraham, the enemy Link fought in the E3 demo’s boss battle, is definitely going to be an important character in Skyward Sword. “The demo shows when you first meet him, and plainly he’s looking down at Link, stopping his sword with his fingers and so forth,” Aonuma noted. “In terms of story image he’s kind of like Dark Link [from Ocarina of Time]; he sees right through Link’s moves in battle. You can sort of swing your sword wildly and still hold your own against a lot of foes, but there’s no way you can beat Ghiraham like that. You need to keep your distance and watch his moves, and it’s something you’ll need to change your strategy for. I think he’s a pretty good change of pace as bosses go, and he’ll change gradually throughout the game.”

Will Ganon show up? “This game talks about the birth of the Master Sword, and it touches on why Ganondorf showed up. If you play it, I think you’ll get some understanding on that. It connects to Ocarina, so if you play Ocarina of Time 3D and move on to this game, I think you’ll catch on to a lot of things.”

How’s development going along? “The whole game is complete, and we’re fine-tuning the balance right now. We were going to have it wholly done by around E3, but there’s so much volume to it, neither I nor Miyamoto have gotten to fully play out every aspect. The non-English localizations are proceeding along now, and we’re trying to make this a simultaneous worldwide release. You have to put Zelda all out at once or else the story’s going to get spoiled – although, really, there’s a ton to enjoy here even if you know a little about the story beforehand.”*

So they could be possibly polishing this game for up to 4-5 months. That’s a lot of spit shine.

Real interesting on Zelda…I think the only other game where she wasn’t seen as royalty right off the bat was Wind Waker.

Radiantsilvergun3 · June 30, 2011, 12:32am

****Things are always proceeding along in town, and in that respect it’s very much like Majora’s Mask. ****

I’m fuckin sold.

Sounds like I should replay OOT now to.

just_prime · June 30, 2011, 12:44am

Does Skyward Sword at least have voices for the NPCs or is it still that awkward silence as they talk? I don’t mean english but at least something like Okami. That is one thing that I think the franchise needed to improve.